Example sentences of "[noun pl] ' time [noun] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some people expect that in a few decades ' time youngsters will learn from their home tutor computers and rarely , if ever , have contact with a human teacher . |
| 2 | At his own request , in three weeks ' time Fluff will quit the Sunday lunch-time show on Radio 1 which launched his amazing career as Britain 's premier disc jockey . |
| 3 | A lady George thought sombrely , with a fine appreciation of the political timescale come the inevitable memorial service in three weeks ' time people would already be asking ‘ Barling ? |
| 4 | I love the fresh smell in the air when everything seems to be coming to life again and I felt a natural surge of joy , as if in a few weeks ' time John would be coming home from his first trip away just as he should have done the previous April . |
| 5 | International availability of lines is increasingly widespread , and in two years ' time ISDN will become the standard business line offering from BT . |
| 6 | But in three years ' time Sainsbury will hit the North Sea . |
| 7 | I suspect that in another hundred years ' time people will look back and wonder at our apparent inability to regard sound recordings as permanent media , like books , music , or paintings . |
| 8 | Maybe he would n't be bringing the certificate today , but then again in ten minutes ' time Sampson could be on his way down to the police station with an open envelope . |